Blog : Sunlight Foundation

Goodbye from Eric

by Daniel Schuman Sep 23, 2010 5:38 pm

Our graduate policy intern, Eric Naing, offers a few farewell words. We will miss him. My time as the graduate... View Article

DISCLOSE Act Fails Again in Senate

by Daniel Schuman Sep 23, 2010 3:03 pm

This afternoon, the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to cut off debate and proceed to vote on... View Article

Tools for Transparency: 6 Ways to Crowdsource Government

by Scott Stadum Sep 23, 2010 2:58 pm

Just a few years ago crowdsourcing was a novel concept, mainly untried. Now that the idea has gained traction, it’s... View Article

Follow the unlimited money

by Bill Allison Sep 23, 2010 1:20 pm

Well-placed politicos say there’s a stealth campaign by outside groups to influence the mid-term elections, but my colleagues Ryan Sibley... View Article

Sunlight Grantee Launches Ambitious Tracking and Analysis of Political Ads

by Ellen Miller Sep 23, 2010 1:12 pm

Since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision earlier this year the Sunlight Foundation has tried a number of approaches to... View Article

GM’s Political Contributions

by Paul Blumenthal Sep 23, 2010 1:05 pm

General Motors Campaign Contributions 2010 Blunt, Roy (R-MO) $5,000 Brown, Sherrod (D-OH) $2,000 Camp, Dave (R-MI) $5,000 Cantor, Eric (R-VA)... View Article

GM should not be handing out campaign contributions

by Paul Blumenthal Sep 23, 2010 12:22 pm

The American car company General Motors has resumed contributing to political campaigns after the federal government took a majority stake... View Article

Outside groups spending record amounts on mid-term elections

by Ryan Sibley

investigations

Sep 23, 2010 12:06 pm

Since January 2010, spending by outside organizations to influence congressional elections totals some $57 million--up more than $20 million from a comparable time period in 2006, the most recent non-presidential election cycle--according to reports collected by the Federal Election Commission.

Though the rising independent expenditures--money spent by outside groups on anything from phone banks and mailing lists to negative political ads to influence a federal election--come after the Supreme Court decisions that weakened campaign finance laws, it's unclear whether those rulings are fueling the boom.

While some labor unions have taken advantage of the rulings to directly make independent ...